9 days. 700+ kilometers. On foot, bike, kayak, through swamps, across fjords, over mountains, and along the sea. The Patagonian Expedition Race is an apex event, an endurance challenge unmatched by anything else on Earth. Today the race’s 11th iteration wraps up in Chile, where recurrent champions Team Adidas-Terrex Prunesco — comprised this year of Mark Humphreys, Nick Gracie, Sally Ozanne, and Chris Near — again took the top spot.

Team Adidas-Terrex Prunesco; photos by Chris Radcliffe

Our team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers is still unaccounted for as of this writing; it looks like they will take 3rd place overall. You can read about the race here. For now, though, look at these portraits at the race’s finish line taken by the stellar Chris Radcliffe. Look deep into these eyes — this is a gaze rarely seen, exhaustion mixed with the thrill of winning a race few human beings can even contemplate making it through.

Stephen Regenold is Founder and Editor-In-Chief of GearJunkie, which he launched as a nationally-syndicated newspaper column in 2002. As a journalist and writer, Regenold has covered the outdoors industry for nearly two decades, including as a correspondent for the New York Times. A father of four small kids, Regenold and his wife live in Minneapolis.